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Here are 25 quotes to motivate you to put in that extra effort when you feel like you can’t push past your mental barriers.
- Don’t stop when you are tired. Stop when you are done. – Unknown
- “I think I get addicted to the feelings associated with the end of a long run. I love feeling empty, clean, worn out, and sweat-purged. And, I love that good ache of the muscles that have done me proud.” – Kristin Armstrong
- It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it. – Lena Horne
- Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort – Morgan Freeman
- The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle. – Unknown
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. – Lance Armstrong
- You learn you can do your best even when it’s hard, even when you’re tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage. -Joe Namath
- Burnout is when long-term exhaustion meets diminished interest. -Unknown
- When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: You haven’t. – Thomas Edison
- One word: ‘Fight.’ Anyone can do it when it feels good. When you’re hurting, that’s when it makes a difference, so you have to keep fighting. -Erin Cafaro
- “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” — Confucius
- “There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.” — Alan Cohen
- “Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.” — Dean Karnazes
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- “Keep your face toward the sunshine–and shadows will fall behind you.” — Walt Whitman
- “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” — George Horace Lorimer
- “You never get tired unless you stop and take time for it.” — Bob Hope
- “Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.” — Cheryl Strayed,
- “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” — Khalil Gibran
- “The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.” — Tony Robbins
- “Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.” — Oprah Winfrey
- Fatigue makes cowards of us all. – Vince Lombardi
- To get there I had to set an everyday goal which was to push myself to exhaustion or, in other words, to work so hard in practice that someone would have to carry me off the mat. – Dan Gable
- Nothing, not even pain, lasts forever. If I can just keep putting one foot in front of the other, I will eventually get to the end. – Kim Cowart
- The real purpose of running isn’t to win a race. It’s to test the limits of the human heart. – Bill Bowerman
- Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment. – Dale Carnegie
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